Hartmut Hackmann wrote:
> Hi, Barry
>>> Its reported on TV-card.com that this card cannot lock on to the
>> +0.167MHz
>> or -0.167MHz because its also using one of the TDA10045 or TDA10046.
>> Its going to make the autotune softwares life harder.
>>>> Sorry, i have no idea what this could mean. Can you please explain?
> I am currently maintaining the driver for the tda10046 and i don't
> know about any shortcoming of it.
Its a problem in the UK. See below.
> Regarding an offset of 0.167Mhz: This is a full tuning step and there
> is no need to let the channel decoder compensate such a vast offset.
> But as far as i remember it is possible to increase the offset search
> range. This will make locking slower and it will definitely reduce the
> performance to accept a tune with such an offset.
It is standard practice in the UK to publish that a transponder is on
507.0MHz say but transmit on 507.167MHz or 506.833MHz.
Being able to set 507.0MHz as the transponder frequency and
have the card pull in from the + or - 1/8MHz is very useful.
Barry